---
title: Handshakes Overview
sidebarTitle: Overview
description: Overview of the different handshakes available in Chonkie
icon: "handshake"
iconType: "solid"
---

Handshakes allow you to easily connect Chonkie to a vector database of your choice.
Embed your chunks and write them to your database in just a few lines of code.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card
    title="ChromaDB Handshake"
    icon="/assets/handshakes/chroma-icon.svg"
    href="/oss/handshakes/chroma-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your ephemeral or persistent ChromaDB instance
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Elasticsearch Handshake"
    icon="/assets/handshakes/elastic search.png"
    href="/oss/handshakes/elastic-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Elasticsearch index
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Milvus Handshake"
    icon="/assets/handshakes/milvus.png"
    href="/oss/handshakes/milvus-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Milvus collection
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="MongoDB Handshake"
    icon="/assets/handshakes/mongodb.svg"
    href="/oss/handshakes/mongodb-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your MongoDB collection
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Pgvector Handshake"
    icon="/assets/handshakes/pgvector.png"
    href="/oss/handshakes/pgvector-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Pgvector database
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Pinecone Handshake"
    icon="/assets/handshakes/pinecone.png"
    href="/oss/handshakes/pinecone-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Pinecone index
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Qdrant Handshake"
    icon="/assets/handshakes/qdrant-logo.svg"
    href="/oss/handshakes/qdrant-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Qdrant database
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Turbopuffer Handshake"
    icon="/assets/handshakes/turbopuffer.svg"
    href="/oss/handshakes/turbopuffer-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Turbopuffer database
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Weaviate Handshake"
    icon="/assets/handshakes/weaviate.png"
    href="/oss/handshakes/weaviate-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Weaviate database
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
